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Cocaine smuggling: Promes faces further prison sentence
According to law enforcement authorities, Dutch professional footballer Quincy Promes is said to have played a key role in a cocaine smuggling operation. photo
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The Dutch professional footballer Quincy Promes was sentenced to prison last year. Now he is facing prison again. Where he is is unclear.
The public prosecutor in Amsterdam has imposed a nine-year prison sentence for the Dutch professional footballer Quincy Promes claimed for drug smuggling. According to law enforcement authorities, the 32-year-old is said to have played a key role in smuggling two shipments of cocaine into the port of the Belgian city of Antwerp. Both deliveries were intercepted.
The ex-Ajax Amsterdam player, who returned to Spartak Moscow three years ago, was not present at the negotiation in Amsterdam, as reported by the broadcaster NOS, among others. Promes had denied the accusation of being involved in the smuggling of a total of 1,362 kilograms of cocaine.
According to the report, Promes is now in Dubai. If he enters the Netherlands, he must expect to be arrested immediately. The Amsterdam criminal court sentenced him to one and a half years in prison for grievous bodily harm in June last year. He stabbed a cousin in the leg with a knife at a family party after an argument. He was not present at this trial either.